Volume 15, Number 15, April 8, 1988
Interviews
Lukas Brader
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
The director of the Emergency Center for Locust Operations at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome insisted, in this February 1987 interview, that there was no need for large-scale spraying for locusts in Africa.
Book Reviews
Masters and Johnson Take On the CDC AIDS Mafia
by Warren J. Hamerman
Reviews Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the age of AIDS, by William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert C. Kolodny, and AIDS: Papers from Science, 1982-1985 Edited by Ruth Kuistad.
Science & Technology
Soviet Union Takes Command of Space
by Marsha Freeman
The Soviets are deploying three new anti-satellite systems and taking a commanding position in international space programs, openly challenging the leadership of the United States.
Departments
Report from Bonn
by Rainer Apel
KGB Spy Ring in Germany Blown.
Northern Flank
by Göran Haglund
Elderly Patients Victims of Cost Cuts.
Andean Report
by Carlos Méndez
Venezuelan Drug-Fighter Forced Out.
From New Delhi
by Susan Maitra
Soviet Rockets in Punjab.
Middle East Report
by Thierry Lalevée
Israel and Syria: A War Ahead?
Editorial
INF Folly More Apparent than Ever.
AIDS Update
Masters and Johnson Take On the CDC AIDS Mafia
by Warren J. Hamerman
Soviets Dispute Origin of the AIDS Epidemic
Economics
Smoot-Hawley Revival Is Near to Passage
by Christopher White
The monstrous trade bill moving into its final stages in the U.S. legislature, is eerily reminiscent of the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, considered to be the trigger which ensured that the market collapse of the late 1920s became the full-blown depression of the 1930s.
LaRouche, in Cologne Speech, Says Republics Key to New Economic Order
by Marianna Wertz
Reporting on a Schiller Institute conference held in West Germany to debate a new world economic order, to replace the Bretton Woods system.
Colombia: ‘The Economy Is Doing Well, but the Country Is Doing Terribly’
by Gerardo Terán Canal
Thanks to IMF and the Russians, Poland Has 19th-Century Health Care
by Luba George and Kazimierz Kowalski
Currency Rates
African Locust Plague Now Threatens Europe
by Carol White
One Year Ago, FAO Chief KO’d Spraying
by Marjorie Mazel Hecht
Interview with Lukas Brader, director of the Emergency Center for Locust Operations.
Business Briefs
Feature
Some Reasons Why George Bush Is Not Electable
by Christopher White
The Republican “front-runner” richly deserves to take the blame for the failings of the Administration. Introducing a dossier on Bush’s role in sabotaging foreign policy, the war on drugs, and the potential for a U.S. economic recovery.
Irangate Revelations Close In on George Bush’s Central Role
by Herbert Quinde
The Vice President’s Bailout of the Texas Banking System
A Wimp, at Best, in the War on Drugs
by Scott Thompson
International
Panama’s Neighbors Rip U.S. ‘Economic Coercion’
by Robyn Quijano
Documentation: What the Ibero-American nations said at the March 28-29 meeting of the Latin American Economic System in Caracas.
El Salvador’s Electorate Rebels
by Gretchen Small
There were two big losers in the March 20 vote: Moscow’s terrorists, and the Rockefeller-Trilateral strategy of endless war in Central America.
Colombian Military Targets ‘Citizens above Suspicion’ for Cocaine Trade
by Valerie Rush
Feverish Pace of New Yalta Sellouts
by Konstantin George
From Central America, to Afghanistan, to Africa, the U.S. sellouts of its allies to “regional accords” with the Soviets escalated after the Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting.
Asians Skeptical of Soviet ‘Peace’ Bids
by Linda de Hoyos
Lázaro Cárdenas and the 1988 Election
by Catalina Metzler
The background to this year’s presidential campaign in Mexico: The international banks must contend with memories of Mexico’s nationalist moment of 50 years ago.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas: Suspend Debt Payments!
Satanic-Pagan Cults Launch War on West
by Mark Burdman
International Intelligence
National
Purge at Meese Justice Dept.: Will Bush Survive?
by Joseph Brewda
The ousted officials, Deputy Attorney General Arnold Bums, and Assistant Attorney General William F. Weld, the director of the department’s criminal division, had led the faction which has been essential to covering up for the most atrocious policies of the department.
LaRouche Trial at Impasse, as FBI Refuses To Declassify Documents
With two legitimate reasons for dismissing the case accumulated, and potentially weeks of hearings on the subject of government misconduct and cover-up ahead, some observers are beginning to wonder if the trial will ever resume.
INF Treaty To Ban Futuristic Weapons
by Kathleen Klenetsky
It will outlaw a whole new range of weapons, utilizing such advanced technologies as microwaves and lasers.
Elephants and Donkeys
by Kathleen Klenetsky
Presidential field narrows--to nothing? — The LaRouche Option — Fun and Games.
Eye on Washington
by Nicholas F. Benton
Democratic Elites Size Up Jesse Jackson.
Congressional Closeup
by William Jones
National News
